Wound Care
Firelands Health specializes in treating chronic or non-healing wounds, which are defined as sores or wounds that don't show significant improvement with conventional treatment. Find care in Sandusky and Bellevue.
If you suffer from a chronic or non-healing wound, we will work with you and your physician to deliver:
- Advanced therapies including total contact casting, negative pressure wound therapy and skin grafting (cellular and/or tissue-based products).
- An individualized, comprehensive plan of care that brings you the most appropriate and effective treatments.
- Assessment, education and ongoing care by our highly skilled team of wound care specialists.
- Thorough training for you and your family on caring for the wound at home.
Wounds we treat
- Diabetes-related
- Venous stasis
- Arterial
- Pressure
- Non-emergent
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Firelands Regional Medical Center offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). During HBOT treatment, the patient breathes 100% oxygen in a pressurized chamber. The treatment quickly delivers high concentrations of oxygen to the bloodstream, assists in the healing process of wounds and is effective in fighting certain types of infections. It also stimulates the growth of new blood vessels and improves circulation.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) helps boost the body’s healing process in patients with conditions such as:
- Select problem wounds
- Diabetic wounds of the feet
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Infection of the bone
- Radiation tissue damage
- Skin grafts and flaps
- Peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Thermal burns
- Osteomyelitis- chronic, refractory
- Osteoradionecrosis
